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Transportation Overview
The Dieringer School District operates a fleet of 14 yellow buses plus a van for transporting students. Two of our buses have a wheelchair lift for transporting students with disabilities.
We keep 3 of our older buses available as "spares" for use when field trips or maintenance requires back up vehicles. As of September 2005, the average age of buses in our active fleet is 6.8 years. We are adding a new school bus scheduled for delivery in June 2006 which will help with the growing numbers of students attending Dieringer. Our fleet drives 100,000 miles per year and we transport on average, 920 students to school daily. We consume about 80 gallons of diesel fuel per day transporting students.
That amounts to 165,000 student rides to school each morning and another 165,000 back home each afternoon, per year. That is a lot of rides to school! One of the reasons we transport so many students is our rural roads and lack of sidewalks. For safety reasons, we do not want to have Dieringer students walking along the shoulders of our roads on their way to school.
In some cases, students live just across the street or very close to a school yet it is safer to transport them by bus than to have them walk. Safety is of utmost concern and students practice emergency exit drills 3 times per year with their bus driver.
We have 2 mechanics, 10 drivers and 4 substitute drivers. One of our drivers also serves as our scheduler/router. Drivers attend an annual state approved bus driver in-service and must keep current with First Air/CPR and they also need to have an annual DOT physical. Our regular drivers average 13 years of experience. |
